2013-12-07, 16:59
Howdy.... Name's Dave. Total newbie to this stuff. Hoping someone smarter than me can help with a problem I have.
I've been fooling around with XBMC for a while(maybe a year) and decided to give the "Live TV" thing a go. I have XBMC setup on a small PC(XP) connected via HDMI to our main TV....and it has been working fine for several months. I have a USB TV tuner connected to a separate Windows 7 PC running Mediaportal for the backend. I got everything configured and working great....even the EPG is updating. I am only using this for over-the air TV. Nothing fancy.
The ONLY problem I'm having is, when I try to PLAY recorded content on the XBMC box, it does absolutely nothing. I get NO ERROR MESSAGES. It just sits there(I think I heard it laughing at me). I've tried every configuration setting I could find on the Mediaportal addin and still nothing. I am just about to give up on this project.
I went through this same thing a while back and gave up on it and tried NextPVR. I got it(NPVR) working somewhat, and I could play recorded content with XBMC. I really did not like NPVR compared to Mediaportal. I don't remember what exactly happened, but it was so glitchy I just stopped using it. I do remember it only worked part of the time.
So last night I was bored and decided to reinstall MP and try it again. It had been so long that I had forgotten why I went to NPVR in the first place. This morning as soon as I tried playing a recording that I has set last night, I remembered why. It did the same' thing that it had done the first time. No matter what I do, I just cannot get XBMC to play recorded programs from MP. It sees them It shows the next recording that is set to run. It just will not play any recordings.
If anyone has any ideas...Please let me know. Thanks in advance. French toast is ready...gotta go.
I've been fooling around with XBMC for a while(maybe a year) and decided to give the "Live TV" thing a go. I have XBMC setup on a small PC(XP) connected via HDMI to our main TV....and it has been working fine for several months. I have a USB TV tuner connected to a separate Windows 7 PC running Mediaportal for the backend. I got everything configured and working great....even the EPG is updating. I am only using this for over-the air TV. Nothing fancy.
The ONLY problem I'm having is, when I try to PLAY recorded content on the XBMC box, it does absolutely nothing. I get NO ERROR MESSAGES. It just sits there(I think I heard it laughing at me). I've tried every configuration setting I could find on the Mediaportal addin and still nothing. I am just about to give up on this project.
I went through this same thing a while back and gave up on it and tried NextPVR. I got it(NPVR) working somewhat, and I could play recorded content with XBMC. I really did not like NPVR compared to Mediaportal. I don't remember what exactly happened, but it was so glitchy I just stopped using it. I do remember it only worked part of the time.
So last night I was bored and decided to reinstall MP and try it again. It had been so long that I had forgotten why I went to NPVR in the first place. This morning as soon as I tried playing a recording that I has set last night, I remembered why. It did the same' thing that it had done the first time. No matter what I do, I just cannot get XBMC to play recorded programs from MP. It sees them It shows the next recording that is set to run. It just will not play any recordings.
If anyone has any ideas...Please let me know. Thanks in advance. French toast is ready...gotta go.